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Army Successfully Launches NLOS-LS Precision Attack Missile

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt The Army said it recently completed two successful tests of the Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System (NLOS-LS) Precision Attack Missile (PAM) at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. NLOS-LS development is done by Netfires LLC, a joint Raytheon [FTN]-Lockheed Martin [LMT] team, which received a $1.1 billion contract for systems development and demonstration in 2004 (Defense Daily, March 23). Raytheon is developing the PAM missile. The precision fire, rapidly deployable NLOS-LS is part of the Army's major modernization program, the…

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